TidyTuesday 38.
Wastewater Plants (WWTP).
“[…] Although there are several regional datasets that provide information on WWTP locations and characteristics, data are still lacking at a global scale, especially in developing countries. Here we introduce a spatially explicit global database, termed HydroWASTE, containing 58,502 WWTPs and their characteristics. This database was developed by combining national and regional datasets with auxiliary information to derive or complete missing WWTP characteristics, including the number of people served. […]”1
Wastewater tratment plants and population served.
The following map shows the location of every WWTP and the elevation indicates the population they serve. The map can be rotated by holding the alt key, and if you place the mouse on any column it shows the population served and the status reported in the database.
Footnotes
Ehalt Macedo, H., Lehner, B., Nicell, J., Grill, G., Li, J., Limtong, A., and Shakya, R.: Distribution and characteristics of wastewater treatment plants within the global river network, Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 14, 559–577, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-14-559-2022, 2022.↩︎